if we beat all the teams we supposed to beat, 70 seems manageble. But Leicester is planned in between City in the Cup and Tottenham. That game has draw written all over it. Middlesbrough are fighting relegation. It doesn't seem that good.

I recall when we used to play that tika taka possession style game we used to dominate in shots vs our opposition but we still didn't get the results anyways. The fan base hated it. Now we play a more counter attacking style, those stats are down, we still don't get results, and the fans still hate our style of play. I think we are just shit and there's no explanation stats are going to give us.

We're definitely shit, that part you got right, and the article actually pretty much implies that. We're definitely not counter-attacking style whatsoever. The logic behind Wenger using Coquelin so much, and the way he's used, can only be that he wants to win the ball back high up the pitch, but as he doesn't know how to teach anything resembling a good press, it's a failed attempt.

The only way I can really describe our current style is feces-throwing.

I think the closest player we've got to being on this list is Walcott. People underestimate how difficult it would be to find a better goalscoring wide forward than Walcott, Salah should definitely be a target if we're looking for one though.

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City’s rear guard is already chock full of over-30s and the old idea that goalkeepers don’t decline like outfielders perhaps doesn’t carry as much weight as it once did. The modern game is ever faster and reactions fade. For every Gianluigi Buffon thriving into his late 30s we find an Iker Casillas type who has hit the wall harder than a Cristiano free kick.

If Wenger went with his own gut feeling or took other advice, then how could he identify and sign a player who he would then routinely ignore?